phpBB2 -> phpBB3 Upgrade Script Discussion

[Balint]

Could not find path to your former forum. Please check your settings and try again.
» Specified source path was ../forum

Now, I've got the both the new phpBB3 folder and the original forums folder in the same directory:

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[root@www httpdocs]# ls -al
drwxr-x---  15 matt1206a psaserv    4096 Apr 15 10:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 root      root       4096 Apr 15 09:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x  17 root      root       4096 Apr 15 10:12 forums
drwxr-xr-x  14 root      root       4096 Apr 15 10:44 phpBB3

Maybe you are just missing an s at the end of "forum"?


Greets,
Bálint

[MKruer]

Are both phpbb in the same database? If not then the forum migration will not work.

I seem to be having some problems testing the update script on the latest CVS....

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phpBB3-CVS_2007-04-14.tar.gz

So, I've got the vanilla phpBB3 working fine, so when I try converting the old install, I keep getting the following error:

Could not find path to your former forum. Please check your settings and try again.
» Specified source path was ../forum

Now, I've got the both the new phpBB3 folder and the original forums folder in the same directory:

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[root@www httpdocs]# ls -al
drwxr-x---  15 matt1206a psaserv    4096 Apr 15 10:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 root      root       4096 Apr 15 09:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x  17 root      root       4096 Apr 15 10:12 forums
drwxr-xr-x  14 root      root       4096 Apr 15 10:44 phpBB3

I've tried loads of variations for the path of the old forum, but nothing works. Could someone shed any light on this?

Cheers,

Matt

[matt1206]

Are both phpbb in the same database? If not then the forum migration will not work.

No, they were using seperate databases. I figured out the problem. It wasn't working because I un-packed the file directly on the foler, it set the owner and group to a random number. I just chownd the files, and it worked a treat.

[matt1206]

one problem might be the permissions on your httpdocs directory itself.
you may want to try and run (as root) from the httpdocs

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chmod a+r .

also, i would recommend to use your "root" user as little as possible

It was a permissions problem. I use the root user on the forum, as none of the web users have ssh access. Once I've done all the work, I when chown the files/folders to the correct webuser

[SHS`]

Which part of "CVS is not supported" (giving or receiving) do people have trouble understanding?

[Lastof]

Which part of "CVS is not supported" (giving or receiving) do people have trouble understanding?

Uh, I'm guessing the not part.